{"id":375313,"date":"2026-11-10T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=375313"},"modified":"2026-11-10T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:26:34","slug":"namika-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/namika-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Namika La Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Two Army personnel were killed after their vehicle plunged into a 600-foot-deep gorge near Namika La Pass on the Kargil-Leh highway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Namika La Pass<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_375336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375336\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-375336\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Source-India-Today.jpg?resize=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Namika La Pass\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Source-India-Today.jpg?resize=300%2C250&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Source-India-Today.jpg?resize=768%2C641&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Source-India-Today.jpg?w=809&amp;ssl=1 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-375336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; India Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><b id=\"mwDA\">Namika La<\/b> is a <strong>high mountain pass <\/strong>in the<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zanskar-range\/\"> Zaskar Range <\/a>of the Himalayas in Ladakh.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the<strong> pillar of the sky passes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of two major high passes connecting Kargil and Leh.<\/strong> The other is the higher <strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-complete=\"true\">Fotu La Pass<\/strong> (13,478 ft).<\/li>\n<li>It is situated <strong>on the way to the Mulbek Valley (<\/strong>located in<strong> Kargil)<\/strong> and is traversed by the<strong> Srinagar-Leh highway.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height:<\/strong> It is at a very high elevation, about<strong> 3,700 m<\/strong>\u00a0above sea level.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>route<\/strong> to Namika La Pass features the <strong>famous Maitreya Buddha statue and a Gompa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Two Army personnel were killed after their vehicle plunged into a 600-foot-deep gorge near Namika La Pass on the Kargil-Leh highway. About Namika La Pass Namika La is a high mountain pass in the Zaskar Range of the Himalayas in Ladakh. It is also known as the pillar of the sky passes. It is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/namika-la-pass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Namika La Pass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10596],"class_list":["post-375313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-economic-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}